A blogger who somehow obtained and posted nine tracks from the upcoming Guns N' Roses album has been thrown in the pokey:

FBI agents arrested 27-year-old Kevin Cogill on Wednesday morning on suspicion of violating federal copyright laws. Cogill appeared in court in the afternoon in a T-shirt.

Federal authorities say Cogill posted nine unreleased Guns N' Roses songs on his Web site in June. The songs were later removed.

Wow. Chinese Democracy actually exists?

Cogill's bail was ten thousand bucks and he'll be back in court on September 17th.

Now, of course, I'm far to upstanding a citizen to listen to nine illegally posted new Guns' N Roses songs.

But if I had heard them (which I haven't), I might say that a few of them are actually pretty good, that Axl's voice isn't any worse for wear after all these years, and that the absence of Slash is a real chink in the armor. I might also say that one of the songs is an overlong piano ballad in the "November Rain" tradition, and that it's the only song of the nine that I flat out dislike.

And I might say that two of the songs are really very good.

Of course, all of this is theoretical. These are things I might say if I'd actually heard the songs, which I haven't. And I'm not looking forward to putting the two songs I really theoretically liked on my MP3 player. Because I haven't heard them.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.

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